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8/28/2014 12:50PM

What to Buy - and What Not to Buy - on Labor Day

Labor Day is one of the big sales events of the year, but what should you buy and, more importantly, what should you skip? MarketWatch's Catey Hill offers tips on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty

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... welcome back to lunch break I'm tiny Rivera oh yes tempting Labor day weekend sales him to be everywhere but buyer be where ... there are some shopping pitfalls you'll want to avoid before pulling out your credit card here with what to buy and what not to buy over Labor day weekend is MarketWatch's Katie and Katie thanks see you thanks for being here ... so it's sure everyone seems to be having a sale ... but there are some things that you should deftly Boing right yet ... ok and a lot of people to plan to go shopping yet on people buy things and to punish him for it because it seems to notice that an avid that by keeping yet and you know how I can say that they do plan on hitting the malls or the on line site sixty five percent which is planned from last year says apparently the new shopping holiday ... on the putting of the surveys yet most devoted to online but still lot of people like to have been riding to the store and get in and get this out of the bell and articulate ... I the only by over Labor day week and simply keeping the summer clothes and I've never once and second it's huge discounts on that they really wanna miss that inventory out ... of the debt than they have other photos in the one that the inventory out combined that those discounts with two Ponzi Geely eighty percent off sometimes and want to use the app on your family cope on stock on those are great so ... summer clothes a new color if you're in the kitchen uncle buying on impulse I got the Sydney in part because this is right around this time and in one putting his new twenty fifteen models and ... they wanna get with it the existing models if you don't ... have the new twenty fifteen you can take an existing model ... great time to buy a car at this time that all the back to school stuff also ... tends to be discounted yes he is the pseudonym back to school shopping for once the in the labor gets to wear my t think the the the ... going into because again they're just trying to clear their shelves ... I like that ... if there's time to clear summer stock summaries stuff to get new stuff and sell the idea of entering a patio furniture drills summer clothes anything the whatever may be ... highlighted that I have is the summit in trying to get rid of that now you can take weeks yet so I guess converse lead talking about what not to buy does that mean those cute fall clothes on our discounted this weekend we will not be discounted a new sun itself sounds like a special promotion on these fall clothes off and that's not really a very good promotion even though they're like oh is so what is the discount ... off its really not to don't be tricked by these men and they will button down and now what about smartphones we know that there's a big one coming out in September Riviera a wave of the day that I ... am I don't like that ... anything in the electronics got that's usually a test at Black Friday as highly as a door buster deals to fill the giant screen TV it's a it's a good weekend by next year's swimsuit ... is there but